Painting the Stern

Today Katie and I tried to finish the stern, but we have a bit left on the starboard side. We had to move the staging around a whole bunch of times, annoying as always and the ways we had to contort ourselves to reach it, what crazyness.

When we lowered ourselves and got closer to the letters “Greenport New York” I started to sand and paint them, first I go the “ort” part and then the “gree” so for awhile it looked like it only said “Gree ort” just something to laugh about.

Again lowered ourselves to reach the “New York” under the “Greenport” and we had to do some strange maneuvering. We were too far away and couldn’t reach without maybe falling off and the paint bucket maybe going into the water even though it was tied off. We gave ourselves a bit of a swing and some how we both managed to get our feet around the rudder chain while sitting on the tip of the knees of the staging. We then used the extra line hanging from the bottom of the staging to help adjust it and looped that through some of the chain and made it fast. Then we were not as wobbly.

Later when we were trying to get up from that I had to untie the part from the rudder chain and it was wobbling all over the place, I’m really grateful that I have good balance.

Many times while we were painting we had to lay down to see what we were doing and once your laying down have a light swing and breeze going, could be a great place to take a nap. But we got the job done.

I also finally got some paint on my shirt, darn, at least its even, a bit on each sleeve.

Staging on the stern, look at all the pretty new paint!

At first I thought it was gold colored paint, nope, just dirt from the exhaust of the engines.

Rudder and chain, that's what we swung at with our feet to haul us closer.

Katie

the NT of "Bounty" and starburst of the cornucopia.